Foundation in Web Development
The Internet is filled with an ever-expanding number of courses, books and guides for programmers of all skill levels to improve their skills. Unfortunately, these resources are either hard to find or of low quality.
This list aims to be a curated set of high quality educational resources. The cost of the platform is highlighted along with the primary topics covered.
Beginner
Mozilla Webmaker
Free community and toolset to learn to create web pages and apps
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript?)
Codecademy
Free platform for learning to code in web technologies
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP)
Khan Academy's Hour of Code
Free interactive 1-hour course to learn the very basics of web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL)
Treehouse
Commercial platform for courses how to build websites & apps
(Web Design, Front End Web Development, Rails, iOS, Android, PHP)
Learn CSS Layout
Free tutorial for how to do layout with CSS
(CSS)
Programming, Development
UdemyFreemium marketplace of courses from third party providers. Quality may vary.
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, Python, iOS, Android)
Code Avengers
Freemium platform for basic web and app develoment courses
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
learn.shayhowe.com
Free beginner to intermediate guides on web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
HTML Dog
Free beginner and intermediate guides on web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Gibbon
Mixed curated learning tracks for computer programming
(web development, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Haskell, computer science)
Web Development, Programming
DegreedMixed directory of courses, videos and other learning resources for web development and programming. Quality may vary.
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Rails)
Platzi
Free Platform for classes on Design, Marketing, Startup and Code. Learn the future of the web.
(RethinkDB, SailsJs, NodeJS, Git, Startup Class, etc)
Free Code Camp
Free Learn to code and help nonprofits. An open source community of people who learn to code and help nonprofits.
(HTML, CSS, Javascript, Databases, Git & GitHub, Node.js, React.js, D3.js)
Vertabelo Academy
Free SQL courses with interactive exercises and quizzes
(SQL, database concepts)
GitHub On-Demand Training
Free Self paced, interactive projects to learn Git and GitHub. Created and maintained by GitHub's training team.
(Git, GitHub)
Intermediate
Computer Programming, Computer Science
Khan AcademyFree intermediate to advanced courses on how to program drawings, animations, games and webpages and more advanced computer science topics
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, algorithms, cryptography)
Code School
Freemium platform for courses about web technologies, iOS development and related tools
(HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Git)
Udacity
Free platform for computer science and web development courses
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data science, Python, computer science topics)
Learn Python the Hard Way
Free (book only) book and course for beginner through intermediate Python programming
(Python, object-oriented programming, web development)
Codelearn
Free interactive tutorials for Ruby on Rails and Android
(Ruby, Rails, Android)
Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Free online book covering all stages of creating a Ruby on Rails application
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails)
Developer, Web, IT
Lynda.comFreemium platform for video courses on web development and intermediate programming
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, programming fundamentals, system administration, ...)
Thinkful
Commercial platform for mentored web and mobile development courses from industry experts
(web development, frontend web development, AngularJS, Android, iOS)
exercism.io
Free crowdsourced mentorship platform of programming exercises and code reviews
(Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, JavaScript, Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Scala, Swift)
University of Reddit
Free crowdsourced list of videos and courses for learning programming and web development
(HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Haskell, Python)
Stanford on iTunes U
Free programming and mobile development courses on iTunes from Stanford University
(programming, startups, iOS)
PluralSight
Commercial platform for web development courses
(JavaScript, AngularJS, Java)
CodeChef Problems
Free intermediate to advanced programming problems
(programming)
CodingBat
Free practice problems in Python and Java
(Python, Java)
Codewars
Free code challenges. Compare your solution with those of others.
(JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Haskell, Java)
CodinGame
Free Learn to code and game at the same time.
(C#, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Bash, C, Clojure, Dart, F#, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Lua, ObjectiveC, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, VB.NET)
Advanced
MIT Courseware
Free courses from MIT on advanced computer science topics
(varied and extensive computer science topics, C, C++, ..)
Coursera
Free platform for courses from the top universities and organizations worldwide
(varied computer science subjects including theory and programming, data science, algorithms, ...)
prakhar1989/awesome-courses
Free university-level courses scoured from around the internet.
(varied and extensive computer science topics, ...)
Roadmaps, Course Guides
MetacademyFree graphs of interconnected topics required to master concepts
(programming, machine learning)
HackerRank
Free programming challenges and contests
(artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)
HackerEarth
Free programming challenges, hackathons and contests
(dynamic programming,artificial intelligence, algorithms, functional programming, machine learning)
Project Euler
Free mathematical/computer programming problems
(programming, mathematics)
CodeFights
Free programming challenges
(Java, C++, Python, Javascript, Ruby, C#, PHP and Perl)
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